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Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment (www.vice.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.

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[–] dragginupagain@lemmy.today 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Clickbait circlejerk slop. Every construction site is a target for thieves. This is just low effort clickbait made to pander to the anti-datacenter circlejerk, you could at least have linked instead to the business insider article this is ripping off.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
  • The data center bubble is driving the up cost of copper, copper futures and copper scrap to meme stock levels.
  • Higher copper scrap prices are driving up the amount of copper theft to meme crime levels.
  • Thus data centers have a direct causal relationship with copper theft.
  • So no, it's not an "anti-data center" circle jerk.
[–] dragginupagain@lemmy.today -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ok and you put more thought into the framing of this story than the author of the vice post(I will not call that an article) did. If you think there isn't an anti-datacenter circlejerk and this wasn't bait for it I don't know what to tell you. High value cargo theft did not start because of datacenters, but you definitely only heard about this one because of the huge appetite for anti-datacenter news.

That's what I mean by circlejerk. Things that are not actually particularly exceptional are being treated like major news stories because people crave confirmation bias and schadenfreude. This vice post is one of the most transparent examples of the outrage economy that I've seen in a while.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You can pretend that the piss you're drinking is water but you can't pretend that AI and Datacenters aren't subsidizing the meth renaissance.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] dragginupagain@lemmy.today -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Do you think pretending that thieves doing what they have always done is now epic and based is somehow hurting AI companies?

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No.

Im making fun of people who defend multi-billion dollar companies online. As the person I was responding to did.

[–] dragginupagain@lemmy.today -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

You're so based for standing up for the clickbait rag that is modern vice. Even if you have the reading comprehension of a grade schooler.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Only rag here is the one that you're on.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aww, keep trying, maybe open AI will pay you.

[–] dragginupagain@lemmy.today -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You are really stupid dude. I'm not standing up for open AI, you are the only person standing up for a business. It's just the business is a clickbait farm.

You craving manufactured schadenfreude is not activism.

[–] forbiddencherry@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

you could at least have linked instead to the business insider article this is ripping off.

The hypocrisy. Here's that link https://www.businessinsider.com/cargo-thieves-stole-million-of-data-center-supplies-sheriff-says-2026-6

(I'll mention though that the Vice article is better because the BI article is paywalled.)

[–] dragginupagain@lemmy.today 0 points 3 weeks ago

It was already linked in the vice post.